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100 YEARS AGO Aug. 11, 1919
Fort Smith, Aug. 10 — Possibility of Fort Smith having no Fire Department developed today when the members of the department, members of the International Association of Firemen, met to formulate a demand upon the city commissioners for relief within the next 30 days or they will resign their positions. At the same time the city water pumping station made a demand upon the city for an increase of 25 per cent wages. It is understood that the Police Department members will demand a wage increase this week. … Mayor Arch Monroe stated today the city would make another effort to pass a privilege tax, but in the event the referendum was demanded the project would be abandoned, as the law prohibits reference of such an ordinance twice within any six months’ period. The mayor says the city faces a crisis in its financial affairs.
50 YEARS AGO Aug. 11, 1969
■ Mayor Laman will ask the City Council today to approve a proposed ordinance to close streets and alleys in the Shorter College Urban Renewal Project for the construction of a public Park and Playground. The proposal constitutes a routine approval of an Urban Renewal project plan approved after a public hearing in 1962. … The proposal states that closing the streets and alleys will improve the traffic patter in the neighborhood.
25 YEARS AGO Aug. 11, 1994
■ Coretta Scott King and former Miss America Debbye Turner are among the celebrities who will meet with thousands of youth converging on Little Rock this weekend for the seventh annual “I Have a Dream” National Youth Assembly. … Tracy L. Steele, the state Martin Luther King Jr. Commission director, said the event is designed to help youth “reject the cult of violence, racism and materialism” and fulfill Martin Luther King’s vision of “cultural understanding and good will.”
10 YEARS AGO Aug. 11, 2009
■ A proposal originally meant to protect bicyclists on North Little Rock streets and trails needs to be more strict on the bike riders who cause problems, several residents told the City Council on Monday. The ordinance by Mayor Patrick Hays would prohibit taunting, threatening or otherwise harassing anyone traveling on city rights-of-way, whether someone is in a motor vehicle, on a bicycle or is a pedestrian. Hays’ original proposal was aimed solely at protecting bicyclists until aldermen approved Hays’ own amendment on July 27 to include anyone using public streets or paths. … Speakers at the second public hearing on the issue asked aldermen to consider the rights of those besides bicyclists and to not punish drivers who honk their horns as a warning.